Avoiding Thorns And Traps

God, no wonder the devil keeps people away

from it. The Bible is the richest, most inspir

ing, most motivating, most enlightening, most

powerful, most reliable and most comforting

word that you can ever see or lay hold on in

this world.

sleep anytime they carry the Bible to read. In

fact, some see it as being boring and interest

ing. Little wonder people are destroyed, killed

or are messed up by the devil because many

children of God are ignorant of the power, de

fense, shield, instruction in the Bible.

word, God’s power, God’s Love and instructions

in the Bible. Remember every man is a product of

what he knows or does not know. For instance, a

mother that only feeds her baby with carbohy

drate will have Kwashiorkor baby at the end of

the day. It does not matter if she did it out of ig

norance or not.

The same thing happen to us when we don’t ap

ply the instructions in the word of God. It does

not matter if it was out of ignorance of the Word

of God or out of disobedience. So far as you act

contrary to the instructions in God’s word, you

may have to pay dearly with your life except by

God’s divine intervention.

Let’s examine the Bible according to Proverbs

the only feeling you experienced was

“pain”. What about a trap; have you seen a

trapped rat before? The rat is completely

helpless in pain and cannot move forward or

backward.

That is the clear picture of what sin does to

people’s destiny. It brings pains, guilt, re

gret, helplessness, stagnation and shame. In

addition, if the sinner refuses to repent, it

will lead to death. Don’t you think that a

trapped rat can die if nobody rescues it on

time? It is the same thing with the thorns.

Imagine someone falls on plants with

thorns, for hours could not stand up due to

the pain and nobody comes to rescues him.

What do you think could happen to such a

person?

“Thorns and traps are in the way of the

sinful. He who watches himself will stay far

from them.”

That is what exactly happens to those who

sin and refuse to repent, they are suddenly

cut short and destroyed by their sin.

Now let us examine this scripture with practical

life example.

Those who live a sinful life make themselves prey/

victim in the hands of devil. Sin itself is a trap, so

even if the devil decides to ignore a sinner, the

I knew a lady who came to school just like

every other student but began to mingle

with the wrong/bad set of friends. She re

fused to listen to counsel to stay away from

such friends. Unfortunately, one Saturday

she had finished her exams but refused to go home,

hanging around with friends (bad one). Probably the

person that drove them was drunk to have hit a sta

tionary truck. Moreover, as a student, what was she

doing in the midst of soldiers at night going out of

the town?

My beloved, sin is indeed a trap and a thorn. Do not

fall victim. Some people do not live to tell the story.

Devil is most powerful over a soul that sins. He can

waste them anyhow as far as the soul is in sin. How

ever, as many that confess their sins and believe in

Christ Jesus, the devil no longer has a say over such

This is where I am driving at; this particular warning

against sin is in the Bible. However, when we do not

carry the Bible, open nor read the Bible, how do we

see these warnings and heed to them. Do not be de

ceived, the richest book on earth is the Bible. It is a

preserver of life and destiny both here on earth and

in eternity. Therefore, decide today not to be far

from the Bible henceforth.

Sometimes some people want to read the Bible but

do not know where to read. There are many ap

proaches to reading the Bible. I will just give you few

approaches.

if you read Genesis Chapter 1 today, tomor

row you will read Chapter 2 of the same

Genesis until you get to the last Chapter

and move to the next book, which is Exo

dus. Thus, you are able to comprehend how

humankind came to existence. It helps you

to follow several events that happened seri

ally up to the time of Christ.

Approach 2: Topically

If your Bible has concordance, you can go

to the back pages and look for a topic that

will interest you. Under such topic, they will

write several scriptures that are related to

that topic and you begin to feed on those

scriptures.

For instance, you may decide to study on

‘love’. If your Bible has concordance, check

the topic and it will show you scriptures

that talk about love. Thus, you are able to

know and understand such topic very well.

I pray for you that God will give you under

standing of the word every time you open it

in Jesus Name. Love the Bible and your life

and destiny is preserved!